Expand your sound palette
Our second collaborative venture with the internationally-acclaimed London Contemporary Orchestra took us to an awe-inspiring aircraft hangar for a recording process like no other. Together we have created a completely unique, never-before-sampled sound palette — a sophisticated collection of constantly evolving organic textures, formed by layering unexpected combinations of instruments. In applying the signature workshopping, performance styles and innovative techniques that have made the LCO so sought after, we have produced textures made up of indefinable, fascinating sounds.
Our need for unparalleled acoustics led us to the most unconventional recording space in Spitfire’s eleven year sampling history — a cavernous hangar with a remarkably long reverb tail — adding incredible resonance to each note. Enhanced with our unique Evo Grid, we give you access to a cutting edge, inspiring collection of instantly playable, spellbinding textures which will add incredible depth and colour to your composition.
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6 mic signas
4 texture palettes
Kontakt Player
Listen to London Contemporary Orchestra Textures
Features Ólafur Arnalds Composer Toolkit and Spitfire Chamber Strings
Features other Spitfire Audio libraries
Features Ólafur Arnalds Composer Toolkit
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The resulting sounds are often haunting, beautiful and frequently shocking in their uniqueness, capable of coaxing inspiration on the driest of creative days.
The excitement with Spitfire has always been about creating new instruments - taking these old wooden boxes and combining them with cutting-edge sampling techniques to create something new. With this library, people will have something to play that nobody has ever heard, or had the opportunity to write with.
London Contemporary Orchestra Strings
Dry stage multi-sampled violin, viola, cello and bass sections
My hope for composers is that they get a taster of what it's like to be with the LCO in the studio... A snapshot of the kind of creativity that happens between composers, orchestrators and musicians, distilled into a library.
The Evo Grid
General controls panel
What's included
Textures grid instruments
Ethereal
- Voices (sopranos, mezzo soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass), percussion, cello
Mercurial
- Flute (plus alto & contra), harp, viola, cellos
Quantum
- Flute (plus alto & contra), piano, viola, cellos
Astral
- Percussion, felt piano, cello harmonics
Individual textures
Ethereal
- Ethereal - ethereal tail (MW)
- Ethereal - ethereal tail (Vel)
- Ethereal - first light
- Ethereal - ethereal tail (MW)
- Ethereal - ethereal tail (Vel)
- Ethereal - shimmer oscillations
- Ethereal - frozen overtones
- Ethereal - space chatter
- Ethereal - aurora borealis
- Ethereal - celestial sand
- Ethereal - cosmic refraction
- Ethereal - vapour undulation
Mercurial
- Mercurial - mercurial tail (MW)
- Mercurial - mercurial tail (Vel)
- Mercurial - mercurial tail (MW)
- Mercurial - mercurial tail (Vel)
- Mercurial - infinity shudder
- Mercurial - fractured air
- Mercurial - chrome ocean
- Mercurial - gravitational lens
- Mercurial - primordial soup
- Mercurial - bantam supernovae
- Mercurial - effervescent arc
- Mercurial - frozen light
Quantum
- Quantum - quantum tail (MW)
- Quantum - quantum tail (Vel)
- Quantum - quantum tail (MW)
- Quantum - quantum tail (Vel)
- Quantum - space reverberation
- Quantum - gravity pillow
- Quantum - subatomic magnet
- Quantum - onyx wave
- Quantum - drone distortion
- Quantum - octave bloom
- Quantum - space forest
- Quantum - distortion halo
Astral
- Astral - astral tail (MW)
- Astral - astral tail (Vel)
- Astral - glass winds
- Astral - glass bloom
- Astral - microtonal interference
- Astral - frozen waves
- Astral - whisper trills
- Astral - still air
- Astral - tremor drones
- Astral - glass quiver
Curated presets
- Astral - mystic keys
- Astral - Shimmer Wave
- Aurora borealis - drone
- Celestial hike
- Cosmic refraction - drone
- Distortion halo - drone
- Ethereal - textural pipes
- Ethereal - twist of fate
- Ethereal - voices of the deep
- Ethereal tail - drone (Vel)
- Expanding multiverse pad
- Fractured air - drone
- Frozen light - drone
- Frozen waves - drone
- Glacial shifts
- Glass bloom - drone
- Glass winds - drone
- In solace
- Microtonal mindcloud A1
- Microtonal mindcloud A2
- Microtonal mindcloud B1
- Microtonal mindcloud B2
- Octave bloom - drone
- Quantum - rolling waves
- Red shift
- Rusty organ
- Shimmer oscillations - drone
- Space forest - drone
- Space reverberation - drone
- Still air - drone
- Textures grid - abandoned voices
- Textures grid - arrival
- Textures grid - aurora rhodes
- Textures grid - cathedral walls
- Textures grid - close but far
- Textures grid - decompression
- Textures grid - deep space
- Textures grid - depths of valhalla
- Textures grid - earthrise
- Textures grid - electric swarms
- Textures grid - feedback drone 1
- Textures grid - feedback drone 2
- Textures grid - chrome surfer
- Textures grid - impending storms
- Textures grid - into the void
- Textures grid - night organ
- Textures grid - out of reach
- Textures grid - piano whisper
- Textures grid - plume delays
- Textures grid - probe scanners
- Textures grid - rattle pad
- Textures grid - room resonance
- Textures grid - scratchy swell pad
- Textures grid - short crystal shards 1
- Textures grid - short crystal shards 2
- Textures grid - storm creaks
- Textures grid - string theory
- Textures grid - stutter roll
- Textures grid - synthesized reality
- Textures grid - the aether
- Textures grid - cosmic reflector
- Textures grid - touch of life
- Textures grid - vocal airs
- Textures grid - wormholes
- Whisper trills - drone
Mics & mixes
Textures grid microphones
- Close
- Main Array — a combination of ambient and outrigger
- Room
- The Mix — by Joe Rubel
Individual textures microphones
- Close
- Main array — a combination of the tree and outrigger
- Room
- The mix — by Joe Rubel
- Plate reverb
- Stretched — samples stretched x2 to create a pad like effect
Testimonials
The resulting sounds are often haunting, beautiful and frequently shocking in their uniqueness, capable of coaxing inspiration on the driest of creative days.
Reviews
FAQs
What is an Evo Grid?
For the newly initiated, Evolutions are hyper-long articulations that change sometimes subtly, sometimes radically over time before looping. We organise these on a grid so you can plot which evolution or ‘Evo’ sits on each of key range, recorded across 12 intervals, and arranged on a 10 x 32 grid. Enjoy instant gratification with an ever changing kaleidoscope of progressive articulations, with infinite possible combinations.
I already have lots of orchestral libraries. Why do I need London Contemporary Orchestra Textures?
This is an inspiring, impossible to recreate library, recorded in a one-of-a-kind location with unique orchestrated instrumentation which works out-of-the-box via our Evo Grid technology.
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Mac system requirements
Mac OS X 10.10 or later
Intel i5
Machine must be connected to the internet during install
PC system requirements
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit)
Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen
Machine must be connected to the internet during install
File size
28.60 GB disc space required during install
14.30 GB download Size
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Kontakt player
Kontakt Full or Kontakt Player 5.6.8 or higher